You can find my list of new pedals shown at this year's NAMM show here. Instead of putting the list in this post and updating it, I thought a category page (with it's own RSS feed) would be better.

Due to circumstances I don't have a lot of time, so any help pointing me to information about new pedals which are not yet in the list is VERY welcome!

Once again no NAMM for me... I planned to go, but I just bought a house and will be too busy...

So once again I'm very much interested in seeing your pictures and other info about the pedals you'll see there, especially new models and new (or previously unknown) brands, even the cheap ones that are not very interesting to others.

If you go and plan to take a lot of pictures (of pedals), please let me know the URL's where you upload those pictures (during or after the show), so I can make a good overview of the new products.

Due to a lack of time I don't often post about new pedals, but this is (IMHO) quite special: a brand of passive effects pedals: Cave Passive Pedals from Australia.

Not just tone controls and switch boxes, but also octavers, ringmods and overdrive pedals, all working without a battery or adapter.

At Winter NAMM Rocktron already showed some pedals from what they now called the Rocktron Boutique series of pedals, but nothing was heard about those since then. Now it seems they'll be available in a few days or weeks.

At the same time they'll also release the Rocktron Reaction series of compact pedals.

I went to Antwerp's Mega Music Fair today, a very small fair of new and secondhand gear and this year it was smaller than ever. There was 1 very interesting booth though: the one of Paul Lenders Guitarsystems, where I saw 3 new pedals:

• the FuzzTool Junior, a light version of the FuzzTool
• Tony's BenderTool, a Tonebender clone originally made for Tony Spinner (of Toto).
• a prototype of the VibeTool, also made for Tony Spinner.

• Boss released a new pedal in their twin pedal series, the VE-20 Vocal Performer
• Blackout Effectos released the Twosome Dual Fuzz
• Catalinbread released the SFT Overdrive
• Roger Mayer released the Metalloid Dual Band HDD
• MI Audio revealed they are working on several new pedals:

As I'm not at NAMM myself I'll base this list on what I see on forums and other effects sites like What's That Dude Play.

New brands and models:

• AboveGroundFX (by Francisco Peña of Tonepad)
  • AboveGroundFX Compressor
  • AboveGroundFX El Griton Overdrive
  • AboveGroundFX Rebote Delay
  • AboveGroundFX The Venue Reverb
  • AboveGroundFX Tone Control
• Electro-Harmonix Cathedral
• Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy
• Electro-Harmonix Memory Toy
• Electro-Harmonix V256
• Fishman AURA Acoustic Imaging Spectrum DI
• Fender Sub-Lime Bass Fuzz
• Ibanez WH10v2 Wah (WH10 reissue in a die-cast metal housing)
• Moog Moogerfooger MF-105m MIDI MuRF
• Morpheus FX DropTune
• Red Witch Titan - Triple Delay

Announced or seen earlier but still interesting:

• Electro-Harmonix 22 Caliber
• Electro-Harmonix POG 2
• Electro-Harmonix Enigma: Q Balls for bass guitar
• Electro-Harmonix Riddle: Q Balls for guitar
• ModTone MT-EM Extreme Metal
• Visual Sound V2 Vans Warped Distortion

I just came back from a short trip to New York, where I visited the Electro-Harmonix factory!

Mike Matthews was also there, but I forgot to take a picture (I was very tired when I left for NY and the long flight didn't help :)). As I'm from Belgium he told me how he signed the first deals with the bosses of Sovtek in Brussels and how they went to a restaurant in the "Rues des Bouchers" ("the street with all the fish").

I moved the site from http://filters.muziq.be to http://www.effectsdatabase.com: easier and more international.

I started using the old URL about 5 years ago, intending to make some small music-related sites under the muziq.be domain, but after a while I decided to make a site about all effects, not just envelope filters and I never started the other sites.

The old effectsdatabase.com site disappeared 2 years ago and and the owner didn't extend the domain name registration. Register.com didn't release it for registration until a few weeks ago.

Please, spread the word (and link)!

New Electro-Harmonix pedals have been announced again!:

• 22 Caliber - 22 watt power amp (available late June)
• Cathedral Deluxe Reverb (available in August)
• POG 2 - XO version of the original POG, programmable with 8 presets and instant recall, (currently available)
• V256 - Vocoder w/Reflex-Tune (available in July)

Finally pictures are available for these:

• Enigma: Q Balls for bass guitar (available late June)
• Riddle: Q Balls for guitar (available late June)

And there's a release date and a little more information for this one:

• Memory Boy, Analog Echo/Chorus/Vibrato (available in July)